Zarqawi is dead, claims Baghdad imam

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[jmc1969]

PARIS - Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation, an Iraqi Shia cleric said in an interview published here on Friday.

Sheikh Jawad Al Kalesi, the imam of the al-Kazemiya mosque in Baghdad, told Le Monde newspaper: “I don’t think that Abu Musab Al Zarqawi exists as such. He’s simply an invention by the occupiers to divide the people.”

Kalesi claimed that Zarqawi was killed in the Kurdish northern region of Iraq at the beginning of the US-led war on the country as he was meeting with members of the Ansar Al-Islam group affiliated to Al Qaeda.

“His family in Jordan even held a ceremony after his death. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi is therefore a ploy used by the Americans, an excuse to continue the occupation. It’s a pretext so they don’t leave Iraq.”

Kalesi made the comments to Le Monde as he passed through Paris.

[Vaquero]

I guess we forgot to flip the OCCUPADO sign on the door after we invaded.

[McGruff]

To quote Dick Cheney,

"If he's dead we got him. If he isn't, we'll get him."

[KarlInOhio]

“His family in Jordan even held a ceremony after his death

Anybody remember the time when the Palestinians were having a funeral for one of their martyrs and the Israelis broke it up. Everyone, including the "corpse" ran.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

airborne wrote:
"
And google & yahoo are deleting files furiously!"

--Those hard drives must be smokin! The sweet smell of burning electronics in the morning =)
The Libs are going more nuts by the second hehehe

[flashbunny]

Hey, tupac has been dead for years and they keep releasing new albums by him.

[SMARTY]

He's dead? Fine, show us the corpse and let us determine that for ourselves.

[dts32041]

Z-man dead, he is scheduled to pitch for the Cubs, what happened?

[Let's Roll]

Let us see the body.

[Rik0Shay]

So is Buckwheat.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Anybody remember the time when the Palestinians were having a funeral for one of their martyrs and the Israelis broke it up. Everyone, including the "corpse" ran."

To quote the delighted response of Bob in "What About Bob", when a security guard recognized him as having upstaged Dr. Leo Marvin on TV: "HAH!"

BTW, if you haven't seen that movie, I recommend renting it.

[sean327]

"If the Z-hole is dead, why does he keep putting out audio-tapes?"


He is using the same production company as Tupac Shakur

[easonc52]

We'll know for sure when Mother Zarqawi wants to meet with President Bush.

Now that would be a believable sign!

[dynachrome]

Did the Viking kitties get him?

[rdcorso]

It's just another evil conspiracy carried out by the wicked Americans who want to control the world.In order to become an imam a person must be easily led astray and duped into believing in even the most ridiculous rumors.I guess it only makes sense since they will go on to represent the biggest hoax of all named islam.

[Rutles4Ever]

"Imam" and "Paris".

That's all you need to know

[Brilliant]

We get a new audiotape from Zarqawi once a week. I thought that dead men did not tell tales.

[The Duke]

Maybe Zarqawi is dead, but we've still got to get everybody who REMINDS US OF HIM.